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this shouldn't be a surprise to us. it's not as if, if i could use the metaphor, that congress was going along in a bus and -- on a ride through the country and suddenly came to the end of the road and there was a cliff. this shouldn't be a surprise to us. we -- we -- we created this cliff ourselves a year and a half ago when we adopted the budget control act. and we created it for a very good reason: because we knew that we had proven ourselves incapable of making the compromises that were necessary to achieve the long-term bipartisan debt-reduction program that america desperately needs. we're over $16.4 trillion in debt. i'm in my last days as a u.s. senator. if you'd told me when i started that we'd be $16 trillion in debt, i wouldn't have believed it. frankly, if you told me just a dozen years ago at the end of the clinton administration when we were in surplus that we could possibly be $16 trillion in de debt, i would have thought -- well, i would have thought you were not reality-tested. but here we are, and most
this shouldn't be a surprise to us. it's not as if, if i could use the metaphor, that congress was going along in a bus and -- on a ride through the country and suddenly came to the end of the road and there was a cliff. this shouldn't be a surprise to us. we -- we -- we created this cliff ourselves a year and a half ago when we adopted the budget control act. and we created it for a very good reason: because we knew that we had proven ourselves incapable of making the compromises that were...
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so the past six separate bills using different combinations. so the lesson is persuasion is necessary and imperative to sway the downfall but if you don't do the numbers coming you won't succeed. these men together cindy obsequy to this gimmick we are speaking with fergus bordewich authors of "america's great debate" stephen a. douglas and the compromise of the union. thank you. >>> i think the writers institute is very important with a culture. we are a culture of words and voices. words are key to our imagination and capacity to envision things. we ourselves are not completely tied to print on the page. but i think that there is no other art form so readily
so the past six separate bills using different combinations. so the lesson is persuasion is necessary and imperative to sway the downfall but if you don't do the numbers coming you won't succeed. these men together cindy obsequy to this gimmick we are speaking with fergus bordewich authors of "america's great debate" stephen a. douglas and the compromise of the union. thank you. >>> i think the writers institute is very important with a culture. we are a culture of words and...
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and i like the one that the late mo udall used to use. he would say, lord, give us the wisdom to use words that are gentle and tender, for tomorrow we may have to eat them. probably a pearl of wisdom that susan rice probably thinks today she would like to have taken with her into that hearing a few months ago. a book called "the world of trouble" published in 2009 by farrar, i wrote about american presidents from eisenhower to ford and how each tried to understand the middle east and how each tried to impose a surprisingly discontinuous agenda with often tragic results. and while that book is about america's political system, "fortress israel" is a biography of israel's political culture which is an undertaking one has to take -- make with humility as an american. going back to tel aviv over several years driving up the hill to jerusalem and up and down that mediterranean landscape, i became fascinated with how the generals and the intelligence chiefs and the political figures of the ruling elite look out at the world and how strong what
and i like the one that the late mo udall used to use. he would say, lord, give us the wisdom to use words that are gentle and tender, for tomorrow we may have to eat them. probably a pearl of wisdom that susan rice probably thinks today she would like to have taken with her into that hearing a few months ago. a book called "the world of trouble" published in 2009 by farrar, i wrote about american presidents from eisenhower to ford and how each tried to understand the middle east and...
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now future generations can use it and some of the personality sketches, made great use of it, intelligence service, all of that is in there, and, particularly, some of the notes on who used the sources and how he infiltrated in, that's all from the tapes. that was the main source of data, the personal papers were a main source of data. the family papers a source of data, and i used the declassified and unclassified documents that are in the history center. getting access i need, i leave that to the next generation. any other questions? i think there was one more. okay. that's a good sign. maybe i answered them all or maybe you want to go back to the bar. on that, thank you, all, it's been a real honor to be here, enjoy the book. every author -- i were the day six years ago when i started this project. every author dreams of a day like today where you're done, for before an audience, and you're talking to them about the book. it's a humbling experience, it is. if you ever meet an author who says otherwise, it's not true. it's very difficult, times to condense six years of work, 500 pages in
now future generations can use it and some of the personality sketches, made great use of it, intelligence service, all of that is in there, and, particularly, some of the notes on who used the sources and how he infiltrated in, that's all from the tapes. that was the main source of data, the personal papers were a main source of data. the family papers a source of data, and i used the declassified and unclassified documents that are in the history center. getting access i need, i leave that to...
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i was going to use the quote. i thought it characterized the worse of the corporatism and feeding the elite, the incumbent industry. he didn't say that. he was a courageous guy. he cut the defense budget by 20% in the late 1950. the budget cuts in the late 1950s were the number one reason we had silicon valley. a lot of radio engineers had moved out there there. it was a beautiful part of the country. suddenly they didn't have jobs. they were saying well, you know, we want to stay here. and they created eventually intel and the rest. >> so we were in a very tenuous moment, we had a financial crisis. there was a financial crisis that lead to that crisis industry. and adding on top of that scrolgly the failure of the three automakers. tough, tough call. by the way, i don't know why anybody in this presidential election mentions this was a bush program. [laughter] you know, i mean, i have a chapter about ford. i'm not concerned about partisan politics. we have to get history right. it started in one and continued to
i was going to use the quote. i thought it characterized the worse of the corporatism and feeding the elite, the incumbent industry. he didn't say that. he was a courageous guy. he cut the defense budget by 20% in the late 1950. the budget cuts in the late 1950s were the number one reason we had silicon valley. a lot of radio engineers had moved out there there. it was a beautiful part of the country. suddenly they didn't have jobs. they were saying well, you know, we want to stay here. and...
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carl did not hesitate to let us know if they upset with something we're doing. but it would, i didn't blame him for this. he was doing his job. he was an advocate. he was a very effective advocate and he took issue with a number things we did and we respond as best we could. >> you mention a couple of abc correspondents and an anchor. let me start with sam donaldson. what is sam like? >> san is exactly what you see on the air. just exactly. he's wonderfully irrepressible. he can't help being sam donaldson. [laughter] he does it at home. he does in time you run into them. he's so energetic. he's so passionate. he loves th the news. hilos washington particularly. loves politics. knows it backwards and forwards. is wonderful but sometimes he gets in his own way. by the way, one of the things i did is i push sand also back in the white house. even the white house correspondent for reagan, and when i went and i was not comfortable the way we were covering the clinton white house and i put him in to the white house. i think about three months before the monica lewinsk
carl did not hesitate to let us know if they upset with something we're doing. but it would, i didn't blame him for this. he was doing his job. he was an advocate. he was a very effective advocate and he took issue with a number things we did and we respond as best we could. >> you mention a couple of abc correspondents and an anchor. let me start with sam donaldson. what is sam like? >> san is exactly what you see on the air. just exactly. he's wonderfully irrepressible. he can't...
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he grossed about it at times but also made remarks that allowed as how the militia was a useful thing to have. he couldn't have bit the continental army without the existence of the militias and people who had been in the militias, and more importantly, volunteers and others who knew how to use firearms, and that was key. >> host: people were using these on the frontier, protection against the indians, native americans, hunting, and then in the colonies, some sense of responsibility nor the common good. >> guest: the command law right to have and use firearms came with a civic duty to use them when called upon. >> host: who was in charge of the militias? >> guest: local commanders, towns. they had them in new england, certainly. later on, they became more broadly based, but as tensions and hostilities mounted between the british authorities authorie colonists, in the approach to revolutionary war, it was seen by many of the leaders at the time as an advantage that we americans -- we knew how to use firearms. >> host: at this time was there organized law enforcement? these communities?
he grossed about it at times but also made remarks that allowed as how the militia was a useful thing to have. he couldn't have bit the continental army without the existence of the militias and people who had been in the militias, and more importantly, volunteers and others who knew how to use firearms, and that was key. >> host: people were using these on the frontier, protection against the indians, native americans, hunting, and then in the colonies, some sense of responsibility nor...
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of the desert for us. that is the stage upon which reality ultimately is sold -- real estate ultimately is sold and staying at hotels, tour i packages, etc. , and how complicated the actual human geography of the place is. there's the imagines place, and there's the lived place. so i'm going to take you to northern new mexico briefly here. angela chose northern new mexico both of our families have issues with addiction. i think that was another point of encounter between us. but she chose northern new mexico, close enough so that we could visit often. and also because northern new mexico there's this place called the espanol lavallee which runs along highway 68 which
of the desert for us. that is the stage upon which reality ultimately is sold -- real estate ultimately is sold and staying at hotels, tour i packages, etc. , and how complicated the actual human geography of the place is. there's the imagines place, and there's the lived place. so i'm going to take you to northern new mexico briefly here. angela chose northern new mexico both of our families have issues with addiction. i think that was another point of encounter between us. but she chose...
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all together and it separates us. so that maybe it. 20 thank you for coming out. i know it's very seen people go out into different things on date. either way, sean duffy is buying drinks. i hope you all enjoy. thank you very much. [applause] >> "500 days: secrets and lies in the terror wars" is the name of the book. the author is kurt eichenwald entering this here at the national press club. mr. eichenwald, what are the 500 days to refer to? >> this is a book about the purity of time between 9/11 and the beginning of the iraq war. the reason it's covering that if this is when all the major decisions were made in terms of policy around the world about how the west was going to respond to al qaeda and the 9/11 attacks. >> so when it comes to president bush, vice president cheney, how were they? what did you discover? >> pre-9/11 were serious problems. this being the bush administration received a lot of briefings about the coming attack, was told there is going to be mass casualties, but unfortunately members of the pe
all together and it separates us. so that maybe it. 20 thank you for coming out. i know it's very seen people go out into different things on date. either way, sean duffy is buying drinks. i hope you all enjoy. thank you very much. [applause] >> "500 days: secrets and lies in the terror wars" is the name of the book. the author is kurt eichenwald entering this here at the national press club. mr. eichenwald, what are the 500 days to refer to? >> this is a book about the...
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in excess of power used in ways the we would fight to the death against. that's the way history has unfolded in history is on the right side of that. a second term, early second term president might be able to take from jefferson. one goes to louisiana which is jefferson understood the clock wasn't like a normal clock. it moved faster and asked the president's clock ticks even in the first term, everybody else in the system, the congressmen, senators, their clocks are ticking towards election. they have to face the voters again particularly in the second term presidents don't have to. so as presidents began to look longer, everyone else in the system begins to look more narrow and the wider the gap gets, the harder it is to get things done. so moving fast, doing things as quickly as you reasonably can is an important thing to do. the other is to depart from dogma. jefferson fundamentally believe in the success come in the survival of america. he what, short of that he would cut any deal. he would do what he had to do. and he was very explicit and spoke in
in excess of power used in ways the we would fight to the death against. that's the way history has unfolded in history is on the right side of that. a second term, early second term president might be able to take from jefferson. one goes to louisiana which is jefferson understood the clock wasn't like a normal clock. it moved faster and asked the president's clock ticks even in the first term, everybody else in the system, the congressmen, senators, their clocks are ticking towards election....
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adore used the word anythinger in some of her short stories. she wasn't using it to be a racist. rather, she was using is as an artist to de-legitimate race simple. that's what i meant. obviously there are black people, too who have used the term nigger in ways that in my view, are completely unobjectionable. dick gregory titled his first autobiography, "nigger "an autobiography." and richard pryor with two great albums, "that nigger is crazy" and bicentennial nigger." >> host: when you wrote the book, it was published in 2002. what reaction did you get? >> host: when i do. >> guest: when i wrote the book i got a lot of reaction, some positive and some negative. and continue to get some positive reactions and negative reactions. some people took real offense at the title. if there was one aspect of the book that probably got me the most negative reaction was people who complained about the title, and who thought that i was being sensationalist, i was exploiting this term by putting it right there in the title, right there on the cover of a book that would appear in your book stor
adore used the word anythinger in some of her short stories. she wasn't using it to be a racist. rather, she was using is as an artist to de-legitimate race simple. that's what i meant. obviously there are black people, too who have used the term nigger in ways that in my view, are completely unobjectionable. dick gregory titled his first autobiography, "nigger "an autobiography." and richard pryor with two great albums, "that nigger is crazy" and bicentennial...
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that's the way it used to work. but now we're sitting here because we have twiddled our thumbs for month after month after month and here in the united states senate not passed a budget, not dealt with this issue in any substantial or meaningful way, and now we're sitting hey ons new year's -- and now we're sitting here on new year's eve. the countdown on the television isn't how many hours and minutes are left until we hit the new year. the countdown on the television is the number of hours and minutes that are left until the country goes over the fiscal cliff. think about what that says. think about that that says about this process, about the united states senate, 100 people elected to make big decisions to rainadvance the interests and pt this country on a better path, toward a better future that is more secure, more safe and more prosperous for our children and grand chi -- and grandchildren. that's what should have happened. but it should have happened months ago. so i hope we get a result here today that addr
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[applause] i invite the rest of you to join us in continuing the conversation. [applause] >> thank you. >> very good. >> it was okay? >> no, no, it was very good. you raised a lot. >> so the title of the book is "dilemmas of representation," and it's about a couple things. it is about the limits of representation. i reallimented to show -- i was really interested in representation, and i wanted to show that when members of congress, quote, represent their districts, that representation can really mean a lot of different things to different congress people. it's not one size fits all, and i really wanted to show the choices, members of congress were making, and i reallimented the reader to think -- really wanted the reader to think, so of all of those choices what style of representation does the reader think is best? that's one of the advantages of profiling ten members of congress. they were only ten members of congress, but you really could get an in-depth picture in terms of local, national distinction, which i wrote down in a lot of different ways so, you kn
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it could be any of us. the tool had turned into the thing made, the journey had turned -- blurred in to the destination. okay. grace drew a symbolic line between a set of facts and orientations toward life that seemed okay. they were marked like a bouquet and one that seemed over the line. she did the same with regard to acts. when he was helping, she got help with that, pick up the picture and help with that but he also said would you like me to go through all of the replies you are getting? i have a good eye for who would be a good match for you, she drew a line and said no. when i meet my life partner, i chose you. we are part of this tagalong cultural trend that has infused itself into services, part of that is a market way of seeing. we are not automatically mowed down by the market culture, that would be a simplistic way of looking, brilliant adapters, we're extraordinarily adept at your online's, doing peculiar work of keeping personal life and in the book i outline a variety of five main ways that a
it could be any of us. the tool had turned into the thing made, the journey had turned -- blurred in to the destination. okay. grace drew a symbolic line between a set of facts and orientations toward life that seemed okay. they were marked like a bouquet and one that seemed over the line. she did the same with regard to acts. when he was helping, she got help with that, pick up the picture and help with that but he also said would you like me to go through all of the replies you are getting? i...
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i know that many of us have questions. as the way into the microphone comes to you identify yourself. >> yes. we hear a lot about tribal militias wreaking unpredictable havoc here and there and making things very and predictable and messy. can you comment on that. >> well, the militias are certainly making things complicated and messy. that is sure. essentially the revolution was one in pockets. each region basically has its own militia. many regions have their own -- of course our region is usually tied to a trouble identity which then can be used as a trigger for conflict with neighboring tribal identity. for example, very much in the news, the coastal town in the center of the coast there suffered shelling, relentless shelling by loyalist forces for many weeks. that created a tremendous degree of resentment and essentially this is now a conflict, renewed conflict between the militias and the town which is a a loyalist stronghold. those kinds of tensions can easily -- the fear is that they will spread to other areas. the
i know that many of us have questions. as the way into the microphone comes to you identify yourself. >> yes. we hear a lot about tribal militias wreaking unpredictable havoc here and there and making things very and predictable and messy. can you comment on that. >> well, the militias are certainly making things complicated and messy. that is sure. essentially the revolution was one in pockets. each region basically has its own militia. many regions have their own -- of course our...
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>> i was using a lot of different things. i was using narrative's that were written by the slaves that ran away to freedom, and one of the things that struck me is that although we tend to think about the fly or the ohio victory as the great divide and once you got to the of the site you were so-called free, and like myself it intended in our work to focus on the first half of the narrative which is the enslavement in the south. but when you got to the other side the very powerful theme was the gray area of freedom and how precarious life was in the so-called free states and how many were always felt the need to either go to canada were to britain because there was no way of really achieving freedom because of the fugitive slave laws. so these were really important. looking at the emancipation statute passed by individual slaves and recognizing that basically they didn't free anybody but with exception the only freed the children of slaves and then became adults dependent on the age and gender and the state in each particular
>> i was using a lot of different things. i was using narrative's that were written by the slaves that ran away to freedom, and one of the things that struck me is that although we tend to think about the fly or the ohio victory as the great divide and once you got to the of the site you were so-called free, and like myself it intended in our work to focus on the first half of the narrative which is the enslavement in the south. but when you got to the other side the very powerful theme...
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the chaplain: let us pray. mighty god, have mercy upon us because of your unfailing love. because of your great compassion, let us feel your presence today on capitol hill. as we gather this weekend with so much work left undone, guide our lawmakers with your wisdom. show them the right thing to do and give them the courage to do it. be their shelter in the midst of the storm, regardless of how high the waters rise. when they feel exhausted, remind them of the great sufficiency of your grace. look with favor on our nation and save us from self-inflicted wounds. we pray in your great name. amen. the presiding officer: please join me in reciting the pledge of allegiance to the flag. i pledge allegiance to the flag of the united states of america, and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under god, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. the presiding officer: the clerk will read a communication to the senate. the clerk: washington, d.c., december 30, 2012. to the senate: under the provisions of rule 1, paragraph 3, of the standing rules of the senate, i her
the chaplain: let us pray. mighty god, have mercy upon us because of your unfailing love. because of your great compassion, let us feel your presence today on capitol hill. as we gather this weekend with so much work left undone, guide our lawmakers with your wisdom. show them the right thing to do and give them the courage to do it. be their shelter in the midst of the storm, regardless of how high the waters rise. when they feel exhausted, remind them of the great sufficiency of your grace....
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up, but they have to use tactics that the soviets use against us in the 1930s and 40s, and, in fact, if you go on the internet, and i challenge you to do that, google what the left says about challenges to the infiltration of islam terrorists into american institutions, that what you find is ridiculed. you'll real when several members of congress raised the issue of hillary clinton's top aide having islamic brotherhood connections, that the ridicule was profound, and that, in fact, this one fbi agent told me you cannot get even the question of infiltration by islamist terrorists into american institutions past the censors if you will, and that we are basically of the same position we were that, i guess, that at the time. comments? >> it's rude to raise such a subject, isn't it, elliot? rude that anti-communism was considered rude, rubbish, disrespectable, and members of the rotary, for example, raised anti-communism points. you know, national review was anti-communist, and it's rude to discuss these issues, isn't it? >> i think there are differences, i would say, one is that a case w
up, but they have to use tactics that the soviets use against us in the 1930s and 40s, and, in fact, if you go on the internet, and i challenge you to do that, google what the left says about challenges to the infiltration of islam terrorists into american institutions, that what you find is ridiculed. you'll real when several members of congress raised the issue of hillary clinton's top aide having islamic brotherhood connections, that the ridicule was profound, and that, in fact, this one fbi...
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i used to having complete control. you don't have any control over anything. they give you money which is a good part. it ends up being about a horse and world war one. you don't know what they're going to do. >> that sounds kind of great. >> of take that. and people sail like it, that's great. i wrote the book was based on. then a lot of people hate it. i have to say i had nothing to do with that. >> are read the book and watch the movie. i enjoyed both. >> thank you. >> him with a group of about 85 of us over from naples. delightful to be here. >> we don't see anybody with you. >> conservative part of florida, servants -- anyway, i just wanted to the past what happened to the band? [laughter] >> you're referring to the rock bottom remainders. thank you. people applauding have never actually heard. anyway, we played here for many, many years. great memories. our founder died this past year. we were getting to the point where it had been 20 years. rapid up anyway. it seems like without kathy was the same. a wonderful memorial at in the program. there's a huge
i used to having complete control. you don't have any control over anything. they give you money which is a good part. it ends up being about a horse and world war one. you don't know what they're going to do. >> that sounds kind of great. >> of take that. and people sail like it, that's great. i wrote the book was based on. then a lot of people hate it. i have to say i had nothing to do with that. >> are read the book and watch the movie. i enjoyed both. >> thank you....
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common on a facebook wall or send us an e-mail. book tv, nonfiction books every weekend on c-span2. >> your watching book tv on c-span2. here's our prime-time lineup for tonight. starting at 7:00 p.m. eastern, hysteria and the creation of the universe. then at 815, the experiences as a christian living in israel. 930 from the national book festival, an interview on her book elizabeth the queen. at 10:00 p.m. eastern, which includes that's primetime programming with our weekly afterwards programming. this week oliver stone and peter kufic discussed their book the untold history of the united states with michael kazin. >> tonight i am going to us discuss abraham lincoln's role in the crisis of the union, 1860-61. more specifically will talk about however him again rejected any meaningful compromise. the country was gripped by a section of crisis because many southerners feared lincoln and his republican party. it was a north party and proudly so. it did not have a significant seven connection. lincoln was elected without a single les
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we both use foreign languages in our poetry. he tends to use more sanskrit. actually don't know much of it. i was a kid who'd got dreamy during sanskrit class in kansas city, missouri. [laughter] to look out the window. i use some yiddish. [laughter] it is fair to say that t.s. eliot was not partial to yiddish. my shortest poem uses yiddish. it was called something like this societal political and philosophical implications of the o.j. simpson trial. the title does not count. the plan was o.j. or a vague [laughter] -o.j. oi vey and then -- we both use a little german when george w. bush appointed a retainer that rhymed roberto gonzales. we both cried about animals and he famously wrote a lot of things about cats. my daughter said once at the dinner table that daddy hates cats. i said daddy does not. that would be prejudice and you girls have been brought up to '04 her prejudice. daddy never met a cat that he liked. [laughter] i have written about the of corgi they look like a breed of dog that has been assembled from the other parts of dogs. not the part said
we both use foreign languages in our poetry. he tends to use more sanskrit. actually don't know much of it. i was a kid who'd got dreamy during sanskrit class in kansas city, missouri. [laughter] to look out the window. i use some yiddish. [laughter] it is fair to say that t.s. eliot was not partial to yiddish. my shortest poem uses yiddish. it was called something like this societal political and philosophical implications of the o.j. simpson trial. the title does not count. the plan was o.j....
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and into every classroom using video and the internet. we need to recognize and education assistance designed for an agrarian era and give kids the summer of doesn't make sense and an educational system designed for people having one career in their lives beginning when they turn 21 and extending 20 years after that doesn't work and people need lifelong education and we need to educate people for the skills that are required by the evolve and high value-added economy and that doesn't just mean skills like math and science although we are lagging behind 30 or 40 other countries in the world in that regard. it also means skills associated with creativity and innovation because our edge as a country comes in the area where we can use our creativity but we also protect creativity in a way that places like china and others don't. in a content driven world, software driven world, that combination of creative people, a system that promotes and protect creativity is probably the real ace in the hole. >> host: let's take bob's comment and tie that
and into every classroom using video and the internet. we need to recognize and education assistance designed for an agrarian era and give kids the summer of doesn't make sense and an educational system designed for people having one career in their lives beginning when they turn 21 and extending 20 years after that doesn't work and people need lifelong education and we need to educate people for the skills that are required by the evolve and high value-added economy and that doesn't just mean...
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they've obviously never used it. i don't believe that any nation, which has any sense that i would ever dare to use that in the environment that is the middle east today. i think it is a preposterous notion. if you've ever been to hear it shina, you will see what that's an incredible devastation it is feared i don't think any nation can ever consider, nevermind the blessing they do on an ongoing basis. my question to you is i think a lot of basic obfuscation is as far as i'm concerned, what is that it to the palestinian people? what kind of future do they face? there was an attack from palestinian centuries long a few days ago or a few weeks ago. tonight is the end result of israel's policy of the last 20 or 30 or 40 years. i've been a lifelong sinus and igc and israel that is more and more isolated and more and more surrounded the enemies to an even greater degree. i'd just like to now, will the day come when there will be peace? ever be given up the fact that would be in my lifetime. israel will go down fighting. t
they've obviously never used it. i don't believe that any nation, which has any sense that i would ever dare to use that in the environment that is the middle east today. i think it is a preposterous notion. if you've ever been to hear it shina, you will see what that's an incredible devastation it is feared i don't think any nation can ever consider, nevermind the blessing they do on an ongoing basis. my question to you is i think a lot of basic obfuscation is as far as i'm concerned, what is...
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like us to interact with booktv guests and viewers. watch videos and get up-to-date information on events. facebook.com/booktv. >> from the 12 and a national book festival in washington, d.c., and interview a national viewer phone calls with "washington post" senior correspondent an associate editor rajiv chandrasekeran who discusses his book "little america: the war within the war for afghanistan." it's about 20 minutes. >> we are back live at the national book festival here in washington, d.c. this is day one of two days of coverage. the book festival has now expanded to two days, and booktv will be live both days. if you want to see our full schedule go to booktv.org. we are pleased now to be joined here on our booktv set with rajiv chandrasekeran, an associate editor at the "washington post," and most recently the author of this book, "little america," about the war in afghanistan. wicked the term little america come from? >> little america came from this remarkable project in the 1950s, led by teams of american engineers to develo
like us to interact with booktv guests and viewers. watch videos and get up-to-date information on events. facebook.com/booktv. >> from the 12 and a national book festival in washington, d.c., and interview a national viewer phone calls with "washington post" senior correspondent an associate editor rajiv chandrasekeran who discusses his book "little america: the war within the war for afghanistan." it's about 20 minutes. >> we are back live at the national book...
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and, candidly, much of that is us. we need to pass some legislation to deal with f.h.a. and we've been resistant to do that. i know that johnny isakson and david vitter and others in our body have been pushing for us to address that. i know the president, the presiding officer today, we serve on the banking committee together and we know that reforms need to take place. but here's what i would say. the main reason f.h.a. is in the problem that it's in is due to loans that were made back in 2006, 2007, 2008 and the beginning of 2009. and what's happening is the losses from those loans are just now kicking in. and there's no question that f.h.a. has some issues relative to their economic value. but there have been five increases in rates at f.h.a. just in recent times to try to get it back where it needs to be. so what i would say to my friends on this side of the aisle is, if we think that f.h.a. can get better by not having a director, i find that to be kind of strange. i mean, sheers there acting -- she's the acting director since david stevens left. but it seems to me
and, candidly, much of that is us. we need to pass some legislation to deal with f.h.a. and we've been resistant to do that. i know that johnny isakson and david vitter and others in our body have been pushing for us to address that. i know the president, the presiding officer today, we serve on the banking committee together and we know that reforms need to take place. but here's what i would say. the main reason f.h.a. is in the problem that it's in is due to loans that were made back in...
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and joining us now is author arun chaundhary who has written a book called stealing." what is your association with the obama campaign data administration? >> in 2008 on the campaign by was the first videographer which is something like to read the first two and a half years of the white house and the last cycle actually didn't work on the campaign for a week or at the white house. i'd worked in that new and strange world of the superpacs. >> talk about the campaign. how did you get hooked up with the president? >> there was an ad on craigslist that said that wasn't the case. was right place, right time to read a friend of mine was working at cnn as a documentary producer and that is a more normal path in the politics. as much as i was interested i was a filmmaker and all the first on anyone's list, so she knew that i was passionate in politics and wanted to get involved and then i just hit it off with a senator and a sort of traveling. >> how long did you do it? was it 2474 while? >> you know, especially on the campaign it really felt like 24/7. i happened to be livin
and joining us now is author arun chaundhary who has written a book called stealing." what is your association with the obama campaign data administration? >> in 2008 on the campaign by was the first videographer which is something like to read the first two and a half years of the white house and the last cycle actually didn't work on the campaign for a week or at the white house. i'd worked in that new and strange world of the superpacs. >> talk about the campaign. how did...
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>> guest: well, i was using a lot of different things. i was using narratives that were written by slaves who, so-called ran away to freedom, and one of the things that struck me is that although we tend to think about the mason dixon line and the ohio river and once you got to the other side, you were free, and i tended to focus on the first half of the nationtives, the experience of enslavement in the south, that when you got to the other side, a very powerful thing was the gray areas of freedom and how procare yows life was in the so-called free state, and how many runaways felt the need to either go to canada or britain because there was no way of really achieving freedom because of the fugitive slave laws, and so these were really important. looking at the e emancipation statutes pass by individual states, and recognizing that basically they didn't free anybody with a rare exception. they only freed the children of slaves, and only when they became adults, depending on the age and gender and the state in each particular case, and the
>> guest: well, i was using a lot of different things. i was using narratives that were written by slaves who, so-called ran away to freedom, and one of the things that struck me is that although we tend to think about the mason dixon line and the ohio river and once you got to the other side, you were free, and i tended to focus on the first half of the nationtives, the experience of enslavement in the south, that when you got to the other side, a very powerful thing was the gray areas...
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of freedom on her own property but prince philip has had more latitude to get out and about and he used to drive about london in his own taxicab and would wear a chauffeur's cap and his protection officer would sit in the back seat. he would love to drive around and being undetected. the clean gets out more than you imagine to have dinner at her friend's home and to have dinner in somebody's kitchen or the older ones who don't have as much money any more, she will go there was just one protection officer. gives her some measure as well. >>host: kansas you are on with sally bedell smith. >> caller: i enjoyed reading your book on princess diana you wrote shortly after she passed away. with your book on the queen did you discover more about her relationship with diana and how you would describe the relationship with princess diana? >>guest: i did discover more. in 1998 shortly after her death that story was from the perspective of diana. but she was very young and immature when she became the princess of wales. the queen made a point* to say she had an open door and she could talk to her,
of freedom on her own property but prince philip has had more latitude to get out and about and he used to drive about london in his own taxicab and would wear a chauffeur's cap and his protection officer would sit in the back seat. he would love to drive around and being undetected. the clean gets out more than you imagine to have dinner at her friend's home and to have dinner in somebody's kitchen or the older ones who don't have as much money any more, she will go there was just one...
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he joins us here on our set in miami.d. nestor rothkopf, a lot of people think that government and big business go hand-in-hand. hand in hand. >> they do go hand in hand but government playing field for power so business in -- introduces itself to guide it in the direction it wants to go but a lot of people in big business or the financial community would prefer if it went on in their way unimpeded by government so that is another front in this particular power struggle. >> one of the points you make in "power, inc." is there are some multinational corporations and make more money, control more money than most governments on earth. >> big companies like walmart have more employees than smaller countries in the world but a country like a company like exxon has revenues that are bigger than the gdp of 30 or 40 countries on earth and therefore it has resources that allow it to set up offices in more countries than most countries have embassies, put more money toward influencing outcomes and political campaigns, to a greater ex
he joins us here on our set in miami.d. nestor rothkopf, a lot of people think that government and big business go hand-in-hand. hand in hand. >> they do go hand in hand but government playing field for power so business in -- introduces itself to guide it in the direction it wants to go but a lot of people in big business or the financial community would prefer if it went on in their way unimpeded by government so that is another front in this particular power struggle. >> one of...
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how many of us spend the second half of the trip apologizing. >>guest: sorry i did not thinkc13 sheets, a lot of times we do not think about that air mattress that is coming out or the town that is coming up because they're all of these additional piece set people you were not prepared for the make sure you have additional sets of sheetsw don't have to worry about pressing them, touching them, with the steamer or the iron, they will look as good as you are seeing them right now on television as a book in your bedroom, castro, few know somebody on your christmas list who loves their home to look perfect in you want to give them the gift of not having to struggle, work to make that bet look perfect this is the perfect gift for that homemaker who want it all but maybe there is no time. even if we do have did we really want to press the lennon's? >>host: insist from illinois, they just ordered the sheets-- c13 understand your height and of highgate manor, tell us about the quality of all of the highgate manor pieces. >>caller: i ordered a set last o
how many of us spend the second half of the trip apologizing. >>guest: sorry i did not thinkc13 sheets, a lot of times we do not think about that air mattress that is coming out or the town that is coming up because they're all of these additional piece set people you were not prepared for the make sure you have additional sets of sheetsw don't have to worry about pressing them, touching them, with the steamer or the iron, they will look as good as you are seeing them right now on...
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she calls us today. go ahead with your question for neil barofsky. >> caller: into so much for articulating your comments for the fiscal cliff. i appreciate it. i was most interested in your process for writing the book. it is so close to the events. did you have to get special permissions write the book? what was your primary motivation? since so many of us are looking for better jobs, i love the city left a job you love to do this. that. you said that you might write something else. were you going to do next? >> sure. the good news about this is that for me, when writing this book, there are certain things i could never write about. like any type of ongoing criminal investigation in any of that information is just completely out of bounds for me. you know, there is all sort of grand jury concerns and investigations. when i wrote this book, what i decided to do was instead of doing anything that would require industry permission, a stop to the topics and issues that i knew came nowhere even close to any
she calls us today. go ahead with your question for neil barofsky. >> caller: into so much for articulating your comments for the fiscal cliff. i appreciate it. i was most interested in your process for writing the book. it is so close to the events. did you have to get special permissions write the book? what was your primary motivation? since so many of us are looking for better jobs, i love the city left a job you love to do this. that. you said that you might write something else....
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we remember, a lot of us remember who strom thurmond was. strom thurmond was a 1948 presidential candidate. strom thurmond was one of the lead authors of the 1956 southern manifesto. this is the protest the supreme court decision in the brown v. board of education decision 1954. strom thurmond is a recordholder to this day of the longest one man filibuster. and again his work pashtun and the guinness book of world records, 24 hours and 18 minutes he spoke against the 1957 civil rights bill. we remember strom thurmond today as one of the last of the jim crow demagogues. and he was. he was that. he was one of the last jim crow demagogue. what we forget about thurmond is that he was also one of the first of the sun belt conservatives. what do i mean by that? what's a sun belt conservative? the sun belt, it's one of the big stories, one of the major stories in the history of 20th century american politics. and that is the flow of jobs, of industry, of resources and population from the states of the northeast and the midwest to the south and the
we remember, a lot of us remember who strom thurmond was. strom thurmond was a 1948 presidential candidate. strom thurmond was one of the lead authors of the 1956 southern manifesto. this is the protest the supreme court decision in the brown v. board of education decision 1954. strom thurmond is a recordholder to this day of the longest one man filibuster. and again his work pashtun and the guinness book of world records, 24 hours and 18 minutes he spoke against the 1957 civil rights bill. we...
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i use that, why i say that is i use that because that's what they do. it's time which is stored back at them. even if it's a joke. [applause] they are people. they are people. they are some of my favorite people but they don't own, they don't own the turf that is ready to. so why is it cool versus uncool importantly it won an election. the reason people like barack obama is he is cool. he beat a war hero, a community activist and an organizer be the war hero for years ago. how did that happen? kessy was cool. it was cool to vote for him. the culture embraces fake gold is over real achievement. kids would rather play astronaut and actually be one. more interesting been famous than becoming a nation at and actually doing something. but i will say this. i am, there's a really big bright spot to president obama being reelected. it is like tearing off a band-aid. if he lost he would be bad for another four years. we would be 45 more% greater, which makes him more trustwort trustworthy. [laughter] so we are uncool. that's the way we are. that's how we are. i
i use that, why i say that is i use that because that's what they do. it's time which is stored back at them. even if it's a joke. [applause] they are people. they are people. they are some of my favorite people but they don't own, they don't own the turf that is ready to. so why is it cool versus uncool importantly it won an election. the reason people like barack obama is he is cool. he beat a war hero, a community activist and an organizer be the war hero for years ago. how did that happen?...
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nbc would they use to make the costume? they used cereal boxes from the muscle kitchen. the white plates in front is a race krispies box and the one above it is from a cereal but i believe has not survived. i've never seen it. something called guido max. [laughter] there's layers of cultural complexity here because you got a japanese-american dancer engaging in a japanese dance in an american prison camp, making a costume out of boxes of american serial in the american serials they chose this race krispies, a concoction based on the staple of the japanese diet, race. so there's one other thing about this photograph that is a little surprising. the size and taxpayer in color, the fact they show japanese cultural entities rather than american cultural activities. but i want to give you a hint. it's not in the frame. there's something a little bit startling about the photograph that's not in the frame. any idea what they might be referring to? >> is surprised many people were allowed in. [inaudible] >> exactly. the thing that i'm alluding to is what is outside of the frame
nbc would they use to make the costume? they used cereal boxes from the muscle kitchen. the white plates in front is a race krispies box and the one above it is from a cereal but i believe has not survived. i've never seen it. something called guido max. [laughter] there's layers of cultural complexity here because you got a japanese-american dancer engaging in a japanese dance in an american prison camp, making a costume out of boxes of american serial in the american serials they chose this...
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we want you, america, to elect us your next president. [laughter] now it's not like we don't have our own faults. we are not perfect. our prim minister makes dick cheney look like a human rights crusader. we got a special thanks credit in the book of revelations which is why once we become president, we'll turn around and invade ourselves. a little regime change we call our own. now, you're probably asking yourself why would these guys be qualified? is canada qualified? not only is it cooler in canada, the con cements of freedom, but because we're america, jr., the little brother who is io dallize -- idolized you, grown up together, conquered a frontier together, laughed, cried, bled, overeaten at thanksgiving, and together, we created the weakest beers in the known universe. [laughter] now, what we really want is just to offer america a chance to kick back for awhile, you know, let us cook your meals, fluff your pillows, and give you team to heal and reevaluate your place in the universe. understand, america, we still love you. you're fa
we want you, america, to elect us your next president. [laughter] now it's not like we don't have our own faults. we are not perfect. our prim minister makes dick cheney look like a human rights crusader. we got a special thanks credit in the book of revelations which is why once we become president, we'll turn around and invade ourselves. a little regime change we call our own. now, you're probably asking yourself why would these guys be qualified? is canada qualified? not only is it cooler in...
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thanks so much for joining us. the question of of whether and how government, particularly the federal government, directs tax dollars to specific industries was a discussion in last night's presidential debate, and can it's become an important and ongoing theme in the current presidential campaign. the terms on which washington assisted the finance and auto industries have also been the focus of intense debate, but probably the most contentious example of all is the one on which diana furchtgott-roth, manhattan institute's senior fellow and our speaker this afternoon, focuses in her timely and important new book "regulating to disaster: how green jobs policies are damaging america's economy." in it she subjects the assumptionings and policies which led to such ill-fated federal investments as that of the now-bankrupt solyndra solar panel manufacturer as well as the a123 battery manufacturer to a withering analysis which we at the institute have come to expect from this oxford-trained economists who served as chief
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tweet us your feedback. twitter.com/booktv. >> i don't want to spoil the book for you, so that me just say that the year began with the american republic in grave danger. the union armies were struggling to grow virtually overnight from a few thousand men scattered across the continent to more than half a million. the inexperienced officers rushed into command of the ross volunteers were stymied by the sheer size of the breakaway confederate states of america which covered a space larger than the entire european territory conquered by napoleon. lincoln's closest adviser was secretary of state william henry seward. seward said that even they fail to see the difficulty of the union's task cannot apprehending the vast extent of the rebellion as he put it. military operations to be successful must be on a scale hitherto practically unknown in the art of war. >> the second year of the civil war, the strange federal government and we can in forces. 1862 and abraham lincoln's rise to greatness at 830 eastern, part
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right after 9/11, several of us, a lot of us gathered at a mosque here here at usc, and i heard a sentence that changed my life. and it was this, to be religious in the 21st century is to be interreligious. and it is that dedication that draws me to eboo and the way he thinks. so, i'm going to apologize only once for an emotional about this man. if i get choked up your just say, chalk it up to that. but one of the great moments in this book is his telling about a genesis moment. so, eboo, would you? >> this is actually from and on 2010. it's august of that years from waking up at around 4 a.m. and i'm having my last meal before my prayers that begin the time of fasting. it's at that point that i'd like to, as muslims do, to read more from the garage or from rumi, or just additional time of censuring and meditation to god listens extra closely during those dawn ours. but instead, if people remember what was happening in august 2010, it was the crazy discourse were having around the ground zero mosque. and so i'm not reading rumi. i'm not reading the koran but i'm literally right wing hate h
right after 9/11, several of us, a lot of us gathered at a mosque here here at usc, and i heard a sentence that changed my life. and it was this, to be religious in the 21st century is to be interreligious. and it is that dedication that draws me to eboo and the way he thinks. so, i'm going to apologize only once for an emotional about this man. if i get choked up your just say, chalk it up to that. but one of the great moments in this book is his telling about a genesis moment. so, eboo, would...
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other aspects of his journey emphasizes use. when he arrived back in copenhagen the two policemen had to hoist and through the crowd and carry him to the newspaper office. the juvenile from a climaxed during subsequent visits to england and france. in london he attended a gala luncheon with the head of the canadian pacific railway and even better he met sir robert powell, founder of the boy scouts. when he was in paris seesaw around the world in 80 days, a very popular stage version of the novel that had been playing for decades. he watched a copy of the novel being printed expressly for him down in gold and embossed with his name on the cover. he then met jules verne's grandson who escorted him to grandfather's grave. they're surrounded by local boy scouts he later wreath with the message in memory of jules verne, from his greatest admirer . avoided aviation in order to make some kind of point about their place in the world. bicyclist who were not from the western imperial powers began to rebound and the bicycle as a peaceful w
other aspects of his journey emphasizes use. when he arrived back in copenhagen the two policemen had to hoist and through the crowd and carry him to the newspaper office. the juvenile from a climaxed during subsequent visits to england and france. in london he attended a gala luncheon with the head of the canadian pacific railway and even better he met sir robert powell, founder of the boy scouts. when he was in paris seesaw around the world in 80 days, a very popular stage version of the...
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it's the one voice that makes us laugh. you are the will rogers/mark twain of our generation and i am serious. you are great, so thank you. [applause] >> i think of myself more like shania twain but okay. [laughter] >> hi, greg. thank you for coming. >> i think i'm a little taller than you are. >> everybody's a little taller than me. >> thank you for bringing it up though. do you have a question and besides talking about my height? >> is not a serious question but i was watching and i'm wondering from this particular show if you -- you were talking to your group and you said you wanted to use the phrase fiscal cliff and he slipped and said something else that i will not say. i just want to know if anybody else caught it besides me? >> a lot of people did. you know, okay if you do two shows a day, that is going to happen. and by the way i'm not even sure what i said. but there are two versions of it. there is one that is profane and there is one that is really biological. it was such an obvious slip of the tongue. [laughter]
it's the one voice that makes us laugh. you are the will rogers/mark twain of our generation and i am serious. you are great, so thank you. [applause] >> i think of myself more like shania twain but okay. [laughter] >> hi, greg. thank you for coming. >> i think i'm a little taller than you are. >> everybody's a little taller than me. >> thank you for bringing it up though. do you have a question and besides talking about my height? >> is not a serious...
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those of us over 35 grew up in a different america. we were taught very directly what it means to be an american. we've gone a love of country and appreciation of this institution. if you didn't get these things from the family, you got them from the neighborhood and the father down the street to come in korea and the family allows anthea appeared he can get a sense of patriotism from school. if all else failed, you can get a sense of the churches were the culture. the movie to the idea that america was special. tv was like that to you through the 60s. now we're about to enter the 90s and some things have changed. younger parents are sure that an unenviable appreciation of america to teach america. for those who create the popular culture from a well grounded patriotism is no longer the style. our spirit is back, but we haven't institutionalized. we've got to do a better job of getting across that america is freedom, freedom of speech, freedom of religion, freedom of enterprise and freedom is special and rare. they needs production. so
those of us over 35 grew up in a different america. we were taught very directly what it means to be an american. we've gone a love of country and appreciation of this institution. if you didn't get these things from the family, you got them from the neighborhood and the father down the street to come in korea and the family allows anthea appeared he can get a sense of patriotism from school. if all else failed, you can get a sense of the churches were the culture. the movie to the idea that...
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british prime minister lord pomerance and told us for an officers. meanwhile, the lincoln government appeared overwhelmed. congress and the white house were in the hands of a political party that it never government before. the treasury department was broke. federal spending was multiplied as never before. in 1862, the u.s. government spent six times as much money as it spent in 1861. and where would it come from? northern banks, and an economic panic had closed their exchange windows in late december, refusing to redeem paper money. meanwhile, rebel soldiers menace washington from nearby manassas virginia where they had routed the union army a few months earlier. confederate artillery they atomic river above and below the n. no one in civilian authority, not even lincoln, had any detailed knowledge of the plans being prepared by the union's top general, george p. mcclellan. he was in secrecy assisted by a small clique of generals who shared his views of lincoln's policies. they were opposed. worse, mcclellan was rumored to be dying. with his plans d
british prime minister lord pomerance and told us for an officers. meanwhile, the lincoln government appeared overwhelmed. congress and the white house were in the hands of a political party that it never government before. the treasury department was broke. federal spending was multiplied as never before. in 1862, the u.s. government spent six times as much money as it spent in 1861. and where would it come from? northern banks, and an economic panic had closed their exchange windows in late...
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with the limits of presidency the democrats use that saying. it's kind of a democratic rejoinder but what made it scandalous, grover cleveland's best friend and law partner was a guy named oscar fulsome. cleveland was born in new jersey and he spent most of his career in buffalo. he was a very successful lawyer and he and oscar were partners. they practice law together and they went out together and they would go out drinking and being together and it appears they enjoyed the services of maria halpern and together so when maria halpern and gets pregnant she has a son and neither knew who the father was. maria complicates things by naming the child oscar cleveland oscar fulsome had been married and had a daughter, frances. wheatland was a bachelors of cleveland accepted the responsibility and put the child in an orphanage. here's the other part of the scandal. oscar fulsome dies a few years later in a carriage accident. he is thrown from an apparently breaks his neck. he leaves a widow and a young girl frances and globe -- rover leave and make s
with the limits of presidency the democrats use that saying. it's kind of a democratic rejoinder but what made it scandalous, grover cleveland's best friend and law partner was a guy named oscar fulsome. cleveland was born in new jersey and he spent most of his career in buffalo. he was a very successful lawyer and he and oscar were partners. they practice law together and they went out together and they would go out drinking and being together and it appears they enjoyed the services of maria...
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it was the second and this time he used notes which he hadn't used the first time and they got it right. so that chapter in my book is called the did it again. in 1965 lady bird johnson became the first first lady told the bible as it was administered. that has been the case of persons. you can see from kennedy's inauguration jackie kennedy's office in the picture she isn't holding the bible. it was instead held by james brown and who was a clerk of the supreme court. a few more pictures to show you. here's ronald reagan swearing in, jimmy carter old when president is off to the right of the picture and here is bill clinton in 1993. now here is 1985, this is the second inauguration and notice it's a different locale and the reason is because the weather was so bad in washington, d.c. in 1985 it was a windshield factor of below zero everything got canceled. the parade got canceled, they moved the oath taking in doors into the capitol rotunda so there were only about a thousand people squeezed in. weather has been a problem at times i mentioned. this is an old picture from 1989 a lot of r
it was the second and this time he used notes which he hadn't used the first time and they got it right. so that chapter in my book is called the did it again. in 1965 lady bird johnson became the first first lady told the bible as it was administered. that has been the case of persons. you can see from kennedy's inauguration jackie kennedy's office in the picture she isn't holding the bible. it was instead held by james brown and who was a clerk of the supreme court. a few more pictures to...
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some of us would say oh well. it is a crucial moment in his career and an important crucial moment in america's history. the big themes that you see in the speech and the broader story working through the election are kind of i think of four that i will be focusing on. i will be brief on each of them to give enough time for questions. first off, the obvious background of the cold war and a new style of conservative vision of foreign policy that i will explain. directly related to that, there is an enormous divide within the republican party in 1952. that shouldn't surprise any of us obviously. this is always a very divided party the tensions within the republican party that the speech and election point to are important. the third thing that i think is perhaps most important is the american tradition of populism for and what richard nixon is doing to the populist tradition in this speech and for what the election and the fourth and final thing is the style of politics nixon developed. the subtitle of the book is a
some of us would say oh well. it is a crucial moment in his career and an important crucial moment in america's history. the big themes that you see in the speech and the broader story working through the election are kind of i think of four that i will be focusing on. i will be brief on each of them to give enough time for questions. first off, the obvious background of the cold war and a new style of conservative vision of foreign policy that i will explain. directly related to that, there is...
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i think all of us stand on his shoulders. i think we probably would not have won the american revolutionary war without him, we might not well have gotten a constitution without him, and we might not well have been able to find an orderly system of self-government. and we all stand on his shoulders. and washington was very big on listening to people who actually knew what they were doing. [laughter] and i mean this in a very specific, narrow way. because i'm not against listening to people who know more than you do about their topic. i've listened to consultants who know less than you do but get paid for telling you thing z so you feel secure, because you paid for somebody else, and it fails, it's their fault. so washington, for example u in a fight at trenton -- this is in the second trenton campaign -- needs advice. calls a council of war with. and there are two people in the council who are not part of his military. they're local farmers. and i always remind -- i was at one time the longest-serving teacher in the senior mi
i think all of us stand on his shoulders. i think we probably would not have won the american revolutionary war without him, we might not well have gotten a constitution without him, and we might not well have been able to find an orderly system of self-government. and we all stand on his shoulders. and washington was very big on listening to people who actually knew what they were doing. [laughter] and i mean this in a very specific, narrow way. because i'm not against listening to people who...